Intellectual Production IP #8 Game Design
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Exercise 1.3 Your Life as a Game
- Myself: A quiz game about my past, present, and future. It starts with what happened from birth to yesterday and focuses on myself including my MBTI personality type, dreams, and beautiful memories about me. By playing this game, players can get to know me and stay close to each other.
- Health: A quiz game about maintaining my health and how to exercise. By playing this health game, players can exercise by themselves or together and learn how to cooperate with each other.
- Career and study: A quiz game about focusing on my career goals and study. By playing this career and study game, players can distinguish various jobs and stay focused on their studies
- Emotions: A quiz game of various emotions. By playing this game, players can know what makes them happy, sad, excited, confused, etc. Players can also learn how to control their emotions.
- Hobbies and Interests: A quiz game about what my hobbies and interests are including arts, music, and traveling. By playing this game, players can experience various hobbies and activities and concentrate on their interests.
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Exercise 1.5 Your Childhood
- Gong-gi: Gong-gi is a traditional Korean children’s game. To play Gong-gi, you need 5 small stones and a flat surface. Players throw five small stones into the air and catch the stones with their hands. This game is compelling because it improves fine motor skills.
- What’s the time, Mr. Wolf?: It’s a chasing game for a group of children involving counting numbers and moving towards the goal line. People have to walk or run when the tagger shouts, “What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?” and then Mr. Wolf continues to respond until people come to the goal line. This game is compelling because children can be physically active by playing this game.
- Rubber Band Game: In this game, two people should hold a rubber band on both sides and the other players should jump over the rubber band. While playing this game, players can sing a song together. This game can enhance the gross motor skills of children. This game is compelling because it stimulates all parts of the body.
- Knitting Thread: To play this game, two people need a thread. Two people can make various shapes using a thread and it also improves the fine motor skills of children. This game is compelling because it requires creativity.
- Ttakji: Ttakji is a traditional Korean game and people should fold two sheets of paper to make this Ttakji. To play Ttakji, people should put one Ttakji on the ground and the other players can hit the Ttakji on the ground until it flips to the other side. The person who gets the most Ttakji is the winner of this game. This game is compelling because it stimulates competition.
- Yutnori: Yutnori is a Korean traditional game that people play on New Year’s Day. People need to throw a set of four Yut sticks and move the pieces to reach the goal line. It can be divided into two teams and the team which reaches the goal line is the winner of this game. This game is compelling because of its tradition and cooperation.
- Kite Flying: Kite flying is a fun game including running and flying the kite. This game is compelling because it develops children’s gross motor skills.
- Bingo: This game can be played by many children. The winner of this game will be the one who crossed off all the numbers in a row, horizontally, or vertically. This game is compelling because it helps children to learn collaboration and teamwork.
- Musical chairs: When the music starts, players should walk around the chairs. When the music pauses, players should sit down in the chair. The player who sits in the last chair will be the winner of this game. This game is compelling because children can enhance their gross motor skills and collaboration.
- Tug of War: To play this game, people should be divided into two teams and the winning team will be the team that pulls the rope harder to their side. This game is compelling because children can work together to win, and they can learn collaboration by playing this game.
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Exercise 2.3: Objectives
- One card: The objective of this game is to shout “One card” when there is only one card left by preventing others to shout “One card”.
- Jenga: The objective of this game is to take off Jenga blocks without falling off the tower and to maintain the tower.
- Pictionary: The objective of this game is to guess what the person draws from the word lists.
- Halli Galli: The objective of this game is to get the number 5 of the same types of fruits in the cards and ring the bell.
- Omok: The objective of this game is to make 5 lines in a row with black and white stones.
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Exercise 2.6: Challenge
- Online National Geographic Kids Games: These online National Geographic Kids Quiz Games are challenging for kids because students have to take various quizzes to test their knowledge in certain areas. If the kids don’t know the right answers, they can’t go to the next level.
- Crazy Arcade: Crazy Arcade is a challenging game because it has a medal and a ladder system. If players can’t gain enough points, there is no level-up and they have to stay at the same level until gaining specific points.
- Wii Game: Wii Sports games are challenging because there are levels that players need to reach. If players can’t gain specific points, they can’t go to the other levels.
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Exercise 2.8: Story
Dixit is a card game that has a thousand thoughts in one picture and is a game in which points are given to the person who guessed the correct pictures. Players can get points by guessing what the storyteller says among the cards. In addition, the storyteller can get points, too when the players answer the correct pictures. However, if everyone finds the right picture or no one finds it, the storyteller doesn’t get any points, while the other players get all points.
This game sparks players’ imagination because the players need to imagine what the storytellers tell the players by looking at the pictures. In addition, many metaphors and imaginary expressions are used to make it difficult to match, the players guess more, and they can see their changes in emotions while listening to the storyteller’s stories.
Therefore, there are many dramatic elements in this Dixit game including the story and narrative of the game from the pictures and it helps players and the storyteller to collaborate and makes them emotionally connected to the game.
Reference
Fullerton, T. (2014). Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, NY: Taylor & Francis (CRS Press)/ Chapters 1, 2, 3.